George Sanders Quotes

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

George Sanders

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• How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Band

• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Stop
  • Remorse

• The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Me
  • Learn

• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Search

• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • Work
  • Death

• I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Kind
  • Ideas
  • Planned

• I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Career
  • Wish
  • New

• The question, 'What is the purpose thereof?' cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we cannot ask what is the purpose of the existence of God.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Question
  • Purpose

• 'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • May

• Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.

  

  Livy
  • Great
  • Control
  • Luck

• Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Men
  • Truth

• Rock n roll stops the traffic

  

  Bono U2
  • Rock

• The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

  

  Bono U2
  • Music
  • God
  • Running

• I'm a patriarch now. I've got to go get the bread.

  

  Chance The Rapper

• I didn't know anything about acting at all. I was completely green. I got into it to meet people, to try and figure out what I wanted to do.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • People
  • Green

• I grew up just outside of Austin, and my upbringing was fairly rural.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Up

• I get really mean or emotional if I don't have food in my system.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Food
  • Emotional

• Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

  

  Amal Clooney
  • Up

• The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Philosophy
  • Weight
  • Stubborn

• I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned a ridiculous amount about alchemy. Perhaps much of it I'll never use in the books, but I have to know in detail what magic can and cannot do in order to set the parameters and establish the stories' internal logic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Different
  • Book

• Reduction of Highway Patrol presence should always be a last resort, and should not be undertaken without an exhaustive review, in consultation with the Governor's Office, of all available alternatives.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Alternatives
  • Review
  • Resort

• The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Magic
  • Something
  • Getting

• There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • World
  • America
  • Latin

• Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

  

  George Sanders
  • Logic
  • Antidote
  • Dogma